by John Updike · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141023090
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«Three Trips: The Short-Story Writer as Tourist» is a collection of short stories by John Updike, published by Penguin in paperback (64 pages, in English).
John Updike examines in three stories the figure of the writer as traveler and observer: the settings range from the American West (Nevada) to Ethiopia and Egypt, and in them travel becomes narrative material. The volume shows his mastery of the short story and his ability to portray American life from a literary perspective.
It is volume 39 of the Pocket Penguin 70's series, published by Penguin in 2005.
For readers interested in the short story and contemporary American fiction.
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
